Word: hissing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President, is it true that you once characterized Richard Nixon's investigation into the Alger Hiss case as a red herring...
...didn't approve the investigation and exposure of Alger Hiss...
...didn't say that at all. I said the investigation was for the purpose of covering up the facts in legislation in which the Government was interested at the time for the welfare of the people. That's all it was intended to be. Alger Hiss was never convicted of being disloyal to the Government...
Having thus dragged his aromatic old red herring into the ring trailing the Hiss case behind it, Harry went on to assure Professor Bouscaren that neither Harry Dexter White nor Nathan Gregory Silvermaster, leaders of a Red cabal among federal employees during and after World War II, were spies. Said Truman: "Neither of them were guilty of anything...
...common sense of the Republican party's leadership. Long before President Eisenhower suffered a heart attack, the whispering campaign against Nixon was, under way. In fact, it was initiated about eighteen months ago by certain extremist groups which resented bitterly his exposure in 1949 of Alger Hiss. It seems odd to suggest that any one should be disqualified for high office just because he offended his political opponents, but that was the main basis for a rash of articles and broadcasts from Democratic party sympathizers who decided that the Vice-Presidency should be given "more attention...